་ CHAP. IV. Which we hope will be very attentively pe rufed by young People of both Sexes. ARTRIDGE had no fconer left Mr. Jones, than Mr.Nightingale,with whom he had now contracted a great Intimacy, came to him,and after a fhort Salutation,faid, • So Tom, I hear you had Company very late laft Night. Upon my Soul, you are 6 a happy Fellow, who have not been in • Town above a Fortnight, and can keep • Chairs waiting at your Door till two in the Morning." He then ran on with much common-place Raillery of the fame Kind, till Jones at laft interrupted him, faying, I fuppofe you have received all this Information from Mrs. Miller, who • hath been up here a little while ago to give me Warning. The good Woman is afraid, it feems, of the Reputation of her Daughters.' 'O fhe is wonderfully nice, fays Nightingale, upon that Account; if you remember, fhe would not let Nancy go with us to the Mafquerade. Nay, upon my Honour, I think he's in the Right • of it," fays Jones; however I have taken her her at her Word, and have fent Partridge to look for another Lodging.' If you will,' fays Nightingale, we may, I believe, be again together; for to tell you a Secret, which I defire you won't mention in the Family, I intend to quit the • House to-day.' "What, hath Mrs. Miller given you Warning too, my Friend? cries Jones. No, answered the other; but the Rooms are not convenient enough.-Befides, I am grown weary of this part of the Town. I want to be nearer the Places of Diversion; fo I am going to Pallmall.'' And do you intend to make a Secret of your go ing away?' faid Jones. 'faid Jones. I promise you," anfwered Nightingale, I don't intend to bilk my Lodgings; but I have a private Reafon for not taking a formal Leave. Not fo private,' anfwered Jones; I pro• mife you, I have feen it ever fince the fecond Day of my coming to the Houfe. You Here will be fome wet Eyes on your Departure. Poor Nancy, I pity her, faith! Indeed, Jack, you have play'd the Fool with that Girl have given her a Longing, which I am afraid nothing will ever cure her of." Nightingale answered, What the Devil would you have me do? Would you have me marry her to cure her? • No,' No,' answered Jones, I would not. have had you make Love to her, as you ← have often done in my Prefence. been aftonished at the Blindnefs of her I have Pugh, • What the • Mother in never feeing it.' fee it!' cries Nightingale, the Devil fhould the fee? Why fee,' faid Jones, that you have made her Daughter diftractedly in Love with you.. • The poor Girl cannot concéal it a Mo ment, her Eyes are never off from you, and he always colours every time you come into the Room. Indeed, I pity her heartily; for fhe feems to be one of the beft natured, and honefteft of human-• Creatures.' And fo, answered Nightingale, according to your Doctrine, one: muft not amufe one's felf by any common Gallantries with Women, for • fear they should fall in love with us.' Indeed, Jack,' faid Jones, " you wilfully • misunderstand me; I do not fancy Women are fo apt to fall in love; but you have gone far beyond common Gallantries," 6. What do you fuppofe,' fays Nightin gale, that we have been a-bed together?” No, upon my Honour,' anfwered Jones, very feriously, I do not fuppofe fo ill of you; nay, I will go farther, I do not imagine you have laid a regular premeditated Scheme for the Deftruction of the • Quiet · ་ Quiet of a poor little Creature, or have • even forefeen the Confequence; for I am fure thou art a very good-natured Fellow, ⚫ and fuch a one can never be guilty of a. Cruelty of that Kind; but at the fame time, you have pleafed your own Vanity, without confidering that this poor Girl was made a Sacrifice to it; and while you have had no Design but of amusing an idle Hour, you have actually given her Reason to flatter herself, that you had the most serious Defigns in her Favour. Prithee, Jack, anfwer me honeftly: To 'what have tended all thofe elégant and lufcious Descriptions of Happinefs arifing from violent and mutual Fondness, all those warm Profeffions of Tenderness, and generous, difinterefted Love? did you imagine fhe would not apply them? or fpeak ingenuously, did not you intend the fhould?' Upon my Soul, Tom," cries Nightingale, I did not think this Thou wilt make an admira• ble Parfon. So, I fuppofe, you would was in thee. not go to Bed to Nancy now, if she • would let you?' '-' No,' cries Jones, may I be d-n'd if I would.' Tom, Tom,' answered Nightingale, last Night,. remember last Night. -When: When every Eye was clos'd, and the pale Moon, • And filent Stars fhone confcious of the Theft. Lookee, Mr. Nightingale,' faid Jones, I am no canting Hypocrite, nor do I pretend to the Gift of Chastity, more • than my Neighbours. I have been guilty • with Women, I own it; but am not con• scious that I have ever injured any-nor • would I to procure Pleasure to myself, be knowingly the Caufe of Mifery to any • human Being." I be • Well, well,' faid Nightingale, lieve you, and I am convinced you acquit any fuch Thing." me of I do, from my Heart, anfwered Jones, of having debauched the Girl, but not • from having gained her Affections. 2 f་! If I have,' faid Nightingale, I am forry for it; but Time and Abfence will foon wear off fuch Impreffions. It is a Receipt I must take myself: For to confefs the Truth to you I never liked any Girl half fo much in my whole Life; ← but |